Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach | Since 1996
Coaching for ambitious creative professionals
There's an art to listening to criticism or praise of your work without getting carried away by elation or despair - and let's face it, without stomping off in a huff. Having looked at How not to give …
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About 15 years ago I was lucky enough to have a one-to-one writing tutorial with the poet Seamus Heaney. This was before he won the Nobel Prize, but he was still an acknowledged superstar, someone …
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Small but perfectly-formed thanks to Tim Siedell for introducing me to A Brief Message - a new blog about graphic design. A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. …
My last post looked at How Not to Give Feedback on Creative Work, with an example of breathtaking clumsiness from the Emperor in Amadeus. To recap, this is how the Emperor made a pig's ear of …
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Giving feedback on creative work is a tricky challenge, for two main reasons: Artists and creatives identify very closely with their work When a creative worker puts a piece of work in front of …
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I've discovered an excellent blog called New Music Strategies, which has a lively and well-argued point of view on the new realities of the music business. A good introduction is author Andrew …